Comment on Ages of Aenya 2017 Cover Art by Zhengyi Yu by Books-of-Aenya
It's brilliant!
I think it does everything just right. She doesn't look vulnerable or sexualised in any way. The shadow, colors and positioning successfully avoid making it strikingly obvious that there's a naked woman on the cover so I wouldn't be afraid to read this on the train. Infact there's just the right amount of straps and buckles in the right places to make her appear dressed in a body-tight suit like any traditional comic hero at first glance.
I certainly appreciate the artist not doing the typical convenient censorship thing with leaves and stuff as that would have actually drawn more attention to the nudity and possibly made it look coy and lewd.
I think it does everything just right. She doesn't look vulnerable or sexualised in any way. The shadow, colors and positioning successfully avoid making it strikingly obvious that there's a naked woman on the cover so I wouldn't be afraid to read this on the train. Infact there's just the right amount of straps and buckles in the right places to make her appear dressed in a body-tight suit like any traditional comic hero at first glance.
I certainly appreciate the artist not doing the typical convenient censorship thing with leaves and stuff as that would have actually drawn more attention to the nudity and possibly made it look coy and lewd.
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I agree. She isn't meant to be sexualized. And I like your body suit idea. If this were a Sci-Fi novel, that could definitely be the case! Thanks for commenting!